This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Understanding the relationship between language change and variation has progressed
considerably over the last several decades, but less is known about how speakers at …

The paper defines the core components of an interactive‐phonetic (IP) sound change
model. The starting point for the IP‐model is that a phonological category is often skewed …

This article argues that an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of language change
can be gained by uniting two perspectives whose intimate relationship has not previously …

How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are, where we're from and
where we're going. How and when does such variation arise? Here, leading experts …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

There is a long tradition in linguistics implicating child language acquisition as a major driver
of language change, the classic intuition being that innovations or" errors" which emerge …

The close relationship between language variation and the nature of social ties among
people has been the focus of long-standing commentary in linguistics. A central puzzle in …

This paper explores the operation of child language acquisition as a critical factor in some
forms of language change. It proposes a sociohistorical model that incorporates the potential …

Street-level visual appearances play an important role in studying social systems, such as
understanding the built environment, driving routes, and associated social and economic …